A Diverse Approach to Marine Biodiversity: One Student

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A Diverse Approach to Marine Biodiversity One
Students Perspective on IGERT Graduate Training

• Kate Hanson
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography

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Marine Biodiversity Understanding Threats
Providing Solutions
http//cmbc.ucsd.edu/igert/
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Our Goals

• Communication
• Fluency
• Collaboration
• Careers

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An Ecological Economic Baseline for the
Revillagigedo Archipelago Biosphere Reserve,
Mexico
Ecology Economics Education
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Our Goals

• Communication !
• Fluency !
• Collaboration !
• Interdisciplinary Scientific Careers ?
• The Process
• Multiple Paths, Various Goals?
• Work in Progress

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Multiple Paths, Various Goals?
Kate
Sheila
vs.
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Work in Progress

1. Transparency
2. Ownership
3. Flexibility
4. And most of all INTERACTION!

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Acknowledgments

• Support
• CMBC
• Dr. James Leichter
• Team IGERT
• Funding
• UC Mexus
• Nautilus Explorer
• Pacific Rim Foundation
• Earth Friends
• NSF IGERT
• PADI
• khanson_at_ucsd.edu

• Team R
• SIO Dr. Enric Sala, Celli Hull, Octavio Aburto,
  Jason Murray, Melissa Roth, Kristen Marhaver,
  Katie Cramer, Maria Damon, Sheila Walsh, Rich
  Walsh, Dr. Stuart Sandin, Fiona Nash
• UABCS Dr. Carlos A. Sánchez-Ortiz , Yuliana
  Rocio Bedolla-Guzmán